The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-01-22

the wrongly convicted man turned up in
San Francisco, and made deposition
proving the victim of Justice" wasn't
within Is miles of the scene OF crime
when it took place. This news will pro-
badly not be received with unmixed joy
by the friends of the supposed murderer,
now that his life has been sacrificed to
the legal beauties of circumstantial evil
dence.
XIX
There are certain parties connected
with the administration of Justice up in
Pennsylvania, who no doubt feel less i'm
pressed with u sense of their dignity and
majesty than they did, say month ago.
The counsel of the man Wilson, who was
lately hanged at Norristown, endeavored
for some time previous to the hanging to
get commission of lunacy appointed,
but their efforts were DISTRACTED, and
Notwithstanding they had competent
medical testimony they were unsuccess-
full. For this result those in judgment
over the case are partly responsible, it is
reported. A post norton examination
reveals the fact that Wilson was as crazy
as loon. His brain was found to be
shaped like that ofan ape, was irregular
ly developed, and had protuberances cor
responding to like one to be found on the
brain of the ape. The law is good
thing, but it is sometimes best, it would
seem, to make haste slowly.
xix
Great secresy has been observed re-
garding the character oft new opera of
Gilbert and Sullivan. The Chicago Mail
says in connection with the subject:
"The rehearsals have been conducted
under lock and key in some impenetrable
grotto, covered with boiler iron, and
presided over by Messrs. Gilbert and Sui
Ivan with loaded blunder-busses." Every
woman in the country will want to see
production the secret of which is 50 care
fully guarded
XIX
Speaker Baird of New Jersey, Benedict
Arnold, and Aaron Burr, would make a
congenial trio.
XIX
Some correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Times, writing to that journal, takes
exception to its denouncing fox-hunting
as cruelty. In a you-don't-know-any-
thing-about-it style he asserts practically
that the foxes like it, The absurdity of
this position is apparent, but judging by
his description of fox-hunting, the fox is
never caught, up their way, but amuses
itself by playing tag with the dogs until
it wearies of the little diversion, when it
brings the whole matter to q close by
seeking its hole. The whole article is
written in a now-this-must-settle-it style,
but isn't the fox often caught down here
in Delaware Does the fox like it ? A
Philadelphia county fox might, but Della
ware foxes are not "built that way"
*f*
What is being done about the Normal
School question? Why do not the peo-
pie of Newark take up the question
The establishment of such school here
would aid business.
*t*
am glad to see that the country cor
respondents of THE LEDGER have ADAM
doned their sentimental twadlle about
girls" their fighting weight" and other
dismal attempts at wit, and that they
confine themselves to legitimate news.
Their letters have lately been immensely
more readable. Fun is agreeable, but
when fun fails to be funny, it is disgust
ing.
XIX
The high hat of the lady theatre-goer
has been rallied at considerably of late by
the city papers, but l find nothing
more suggestive than the following ex-
tract from the Brooklyn Citizen, describ-
ing what our English cousins do about
the problem. 1t is not always desirable
to follow their example, but their social
customs are irrevocable, and natural, and
founded on good common sense: TN
London the lady theatre-goer who occu-
pies seat in what we call the parquette
is expected to appear in full dress, which
by a queer sort of paradox means com
plete absence of any head dress. The
condition seems to be complied with,
however deficient the rest of the toilette
NAV be in the conventional details of
what is supposed to be full or evening
dress. The lady who wears hat is ex-
pected to be content with a second or
third-class seat, and as this inferior place
is in the gallery or where the tiers OF
seats rise one above the other there is
practically no such obstruction of the
view of the stage as that which is COM
planned of now so generally at our thea
tres-at least by occupants of the orches-
ira and parquette chairs. My inform
ant saws also that Lady Churchill, who,
as most people know, is daughter OF
Leonard Jerome, sought to break through
this rule and wear her hat at the Eng
lish theatres, as she was accustomed to
do at similar places of amusement in
America. But even she, as the wife of
man who was the son of a duke and d
lord by courtesy, could not indulge her
, Yankee independence in this respect and
was compelled to do as the Romans do"
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